Device for removing cream from milk-bottles.



v L. A. YOUNG. DEVIGE FOR REMOVING CREAM FROM MILK BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED 1330.26

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Zhmmtnr mtmrsnrs Alumnus ANDREW B, GRAHANO PHOTO-UTMPGRAPHERS,WASHINGTON u c =LEONARD A. YOUNG, OF DETROIT, -MICHIGAN.

LD'EVICE FOB .REMOFVING CREAM FROM :MIIIK-BOTTLES.

Application filed December 26, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be-it-known that I, LEONARD A. YOUNG,

a citizen of the iUnited States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Removing Cream from Milk- B,ottles; and :I do declarethefollowing to be afulhclear, and exact description of the invention, such-as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains-to make and use the same, refcrence being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part oft-his specification.

This invention relates to .a device for withdrawing or removing the cream from the top of milk in milk bottles, and consists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully set forth and pointed out particularly in the claim.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and etlicient device whereby the cream which forms at the top of the milk in milk bottles, may be readily and entirely removed without withdrawing any of the milk therewith, the arrangement being such that the cream which is of lighter specfic gravity than milk, may be taken from the bottle without the operation of pouring said contents therefrom.

The above object is attained by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a central vertical section through a bottle of milk and my cream re moving device, showing the initial operation in removing the cream. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the cream remover. Fig, 3 is a central vertical section similar to Fig. 1, showing the second operation in removing the cream from the top of the milk in the bottle. Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross section through the cream removing device, as on line 4t1- of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan of the bottom of the cream removing device. Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary view partly in section, showing the construction of the cream removing device.

Referring to the characters of reference, 1 designates a cylindrical tube of the requisite diameter formed of suitable sheet metal having a central opening 2 in the bottom thereof and an annular valve seat 3 between the margin of said opening and the wall of said tube, At the requisite distance above Specification of 'IiettersPatent.

Patented June 21, 1910.

'Serial No. 469,471.

the bottom of the tube, the wall thereof is pierced witha plurality of apertures 4 in circumferential alinement. At the bottom of said tube and adapted to seat over the opening2 is a disk valve 5 fastened to the lower end of a valve rod 6. The upperend of said valve rod is provided with a right angle portion 7 which passes through a vertical slot 8 in the wall of the tube, the outer end of said portion 7 of said valve rod carrying the operative handle 9. Communicating with the lowerend of the vertical slot 8 is a laterallyextending slot 10 (see Figfi) .into which the horizontal-portion 7 of the valve rod may bepassed when said .rod is moved downward to seat the valve 5, thereby locking said valve upon its seat.

Crossing the interior of the tube 1 near its lower end is a bar 11 wherein is formed a central aperture through which passes the valve rod 6, whereby said rod is guided and the valve is retained properly in place. The valve rod is somewhat flexible so that when the valve is forced onto its seat and the outwardly projecting portion 7 of the valve rod is locked in the lateral slot 10, said valve rod will be somewhat sprung, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, whereby the valve is forced onto its seat with sufficient spring tension to make a tight closure.

In describing the operation of this device, reference will be had first to Fig. l in which view is shown an ordinary milk bottle 12 having upon the top of the milk therein the usually formed stratum of cream 13. To remove said cream, the valve is raised from its seat by lifting the valve rod 6 and the tube 1 is introduced into the mouth of the bottle so that the cream displaced by the entrance of the tube will flow thereinto through the opening 2 as said tube is slowly passed downwardly. When the tube shall have been filled with cream nearly to the level of the apertures 4, or when the bottom of the tube shall have nearly reached the top of the milk, the valve is closed and the tube withdrawn, when the cream may be discharged from the tube by opening the valve 5. This initial operation, as will be seen, does not remove all of the cream for the reason that a tube that will admit of being entered in the mouth of the bottle is not large enough in diameter to hold the whole quantity of cream which forms upon the top of the milk. A second operation is therefore necessary to remove the remaining cream, which second operation consists in again introducing the tube into the bottle With the valve closed and forcing said tube downwardly therein until the displacement of the contents of the bottle by the entrance of the tube shall have raised the cream to the level of the apertures 4, as shown in Fig. 3, when the cream will run into the tube through said apertures as the tube is depressed, thereby enabling all of the cream to be drawn off from the top of the milk, the cream remaining in the tube after the second operation, being discharged therefrom by lifting the valve.

It will now be apparent that by means of this device, the cream which forms at the top of the milkin a milk bottle may be readily removed Without removing any of the milk therewith and without materially disturbing the milk in the bottle.

Having thus fully set forth my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A device for removing cream from the top of milk bottles, comprising a dis lacement tube adapted to be lntroduced in 0 the mouth of the bottle to displace the contents therein, said tube having an opening in the bottom thereof, a fiat valve seat surrounding said opening, a disk valve adapted to engage said seat to close said opening, a spring valve rod attached to said valve, the wall of the tube at its upper end having a vertical slot therein, and a lateral slot eX- tending from the bottom of said vertical slot, the upper end of said valve rod having a right angled portion extending through and normally lying in said vertical slot and movable into said lateral slot, and a handle 'upon the portion of the valve rod extending through the slot in said tube for lifting the valve rod vertically and for moving it into 7 said lateral slot.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

LEONARD A. YOUNG. Witnesses:

O. B. BAENZIGER, I. G. HOWLETT. 

